Pakistan blast kills at least 60

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Pakistani women mourn the death of relatives after a bomb blast in Lahore on March 27, 2016.At least 60 people were killed and dozens injured when an explosion ripped through the parking lot of a crowded park where many minority Christians had gone to celebrate Easter Sunday in the Pakistani city Lahore, officials said. (ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images)

A suicide blast in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore has killed at least 63 people, a senior police official told CNN.

More than 300 others were injured, police official Haider Ashraf said.

Officials said the blast was from a suicide bomber and happened at the city’s Gulshan Iqbal Park.

The explosion ripped through the heart of Lahore on Sunday evening, at a time when many families were at the park.